The effectiveness of an educational program based on nanotechnology as a requirement for the orientation towards the era of the fourth industrial revolution in developing innovative thinking tendencies and high-ranking thinking skills in physics among secondary school students

Mohamed Mukhtar, Dr. Ihab Ahmed

doi:10.21608/mktm.2019.114111

The effectiveness of an educational program based on nanotechnology as a requirement for the orientation towards the era of the fourth industrial revolution in developing innovative thinking tendencies and high-ranking thinking skills in physics among secondary school students

Document Type : Researches for promotion to assistant professor and professor degrees

Author

Dr. Ihab Ahmed Mohamed Mukhtar

Assistant Professor of Curricula and Methods of Teaching Science - Faculty of Education - Mansoura University

10.21608/mktm.2019.114111

Abstract

The current research aimed to define the effectiveness of a nanotechnology-based education program as a prerequisite for the fourth industrial revolution era in developing Creative Thinking Dispositions and Skills of Higher Order Thinking in physics among second-graders. The search results resulted in:
1. There were statistically significant differences at the mean level of 0.01 between the average scores of the experimental group and the control group students in the post-application of the Scale of Creative Thinking Dispositions in favor of the experimental group.
2 - There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance of 0.01 among the average scores of the experimental group in the tribal and remote applications of the Scale of Creative Thinking Dispositions in favor of the post application.
3 - There were statistically significant differences at the mean level of 0.01 between the average scores of the experimental group and the students of the control group in the post-application to the test of Higher Order Thinking Skills in favor of the experimental group.
4 - There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance of 0.01 among the average scores of the experimental group in the tribal and remote applications to the test of Higher Order Thinking Skills in favor of the post-application.

Main Subjects

النانوتکنولوجي

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